We live in an age where people ask strangers on the internet for money for disposable razors and Roombas, too.

I don’t appreciate hand-wringing over whose cause is worthiest. If owning BMWs is a disqualifier, why isn’t simply living in the USA? There are people in developing countries who can only aspire to be as wealthy as the poorest homeowner in Texas.

It’s an old-fashioned foreign name that was declining in popularity before the WWII. In the USA, the decline has been more-or-less linear, without an obvious inflection point in the 1940s. [Source: US Social Security Administration].

What you clowns who learned what little you know about the Civil War two months ago by watching John Oliver don’t understand is that “they” are US.

The name “Adolf” hasn’t really been ruined. But “Hitler” is definitely over. Some organizations with strong ties to the Third Reich, such as Volkswagen and Porsche, were able to completely reform their identities. Others like IG Farben had to be disbanded.

Self-congratulatory armchair outrage.

The Corvette C4 had the “backwards” pop-ups.

Come on. Porsche did them that way for style. A headlamp that’s exposed all day is more likely to get dirty in the first place. And what about the 914, 924 and 944? Were they sold to people more likely to remember to wash their headlights?

Yeah yeah. More armchair outrage.

How many amphibious fuel trucks did you pay for to resupply random filling stations in Texas?

The wholesale supply collapsed because of the hurricane, of course. The fuel was temporarily unavailable.

Demand may or may not soar in reaction to news of a short-term supply interruption. But it doesn’t have to. If prices were inelastic, the available supply would collapse even if demand remained constant.

No one is worried it’s going to go to $20/gallon forever, just for the duration of the emergency. Cautionary buying makes the short-term supply problem worse. If the price is inelastic, supply will collapse. We already went through this 40 years ago.

This one. Jalopnik.

Narcissism of the small difference.

Power is power. Gearing cannot help you.

What a reprehensible attitude.

Skip-shift was introduced in model year 1989 with the new ZF 6-speed. It has hung around on the later Tremec gearboxes to this day.

shifting from 1st to 4th is JUST IDIOTIC, because blah blah blah

I am referring to internal combustion engines of course. The question was “why exactly is it that VW would be unable to ‘package it properly’ and meet global safety without the electric powertrain?” and I responded that an ICE in front would fill up the short crumple zone, and they would not put the ICE in back.